Getting nautilus-actions To Work In Ubuntu Natty

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Robert Beal

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty), which hasn’t been the smoothest upgrade. One issue I found is that nautilus-actions, the handy context menu extender, no longer works for the actions I have (Shred and video conversion for the Samsung YP-P2). After a bit of googling around I’ve managed to find a fix and update the configs for my existing actions.

Firstly I tried using an older version of nautilus-actions opting for the Maverick package (v2.3) which worked but contained old issues with nautilus-actions, namely the “spaces” issues where by it replaces a space with a %20 (ie url encoded it). This stops most actions from working. This wasn’t acceptable for me, so I continued looking for a fix…

I decided to try a more recent version (v3.1.2) of nautilus-actions by using the package from the up-and-coming Oneiric release. It can be downloaded as a .deb file from the following url:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/nautilus-actions/download

I’ve installed the amd64 version 3.2.1 and it works perfectly in 11.04 (Natty). I’ve since been able to update (and improve) my actions as nautilus-actions has changed a bit since v2.3. They can now be exported as .desktop files which are downloadable below:

Leeq

Great post. I was wasting a lot of time because of this pathetic bug. I mainly used to enqueue to my Audacious playlist.
For me, I had to completely remove the old package first and install the newer version to make it work.
Thanks for sharing!

Robert Beal